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MATTER OF ADOPTION OF ZALKIND T.

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140 A.D.3d 675 (2016)

33 N.Y.S.3d 734

2016 NY Slip Op 05245

In the Matter of the Adoption of ZALKIND T. and Another, Infants. MATTHEW G. YEAGER, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided June 30, 2016.

Although all of the parties to the adoption are deceased and notice of the petition was not sent to any known or unknown descendants, the Surrogate's Court properly denied the petition, since petitioner failed to show "good cause" for unsealing the adoption records (Domestic Relations Law § 114 [2]; Matter of Linda F.M., 52 N.Y.2d 236, 240 [1981], appeal dismissed 454 U.S. 806 [1981]).

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